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Zoho has made a name for itself with reliable, slick, and easy-to-use software. More than that, they generally provide the base product for free. Zoho Cliq is no different. Cliq is a Slack-alternative team chat that is integrated into the Zoho CRM and suite of enterprise tools. What is Zoho Cliq? Very simply, it’s a team chat app that your company and brand can use to keep things organized and running smoothly. You might be familiar with Slack and all that it can do. If so, then Zoho Cliq will be familiar ground. At its core, Zoho Cliq is about two things. Communication between team members and project management. Even if you don’t take advantage of the extra tools you get from the integrated Zoho CRM platform, Cliq can be a quick and simple way to stay in touch and make sure things get handled right. There are private messages, voice calls, moderated channels, bots, app extensions, reminders, and other collaborative tools you can use to keep your team in sync constantly. … [Read more...] about Zoho Cliq: An Overview and Review

Keeping your bounce rate down is important. Making sure visitors return to your site can be equally important. With both of those metrics combined (a user engaging with your topic multiple times), the likelihood of conversion is much higher than it would be otherwise. One of the most effective (and fun) ways to achieve this is to gamify your website. Using the GamiPress plugin, you can gamify your WordPress website in ways that are sure to bring users back. Not only because your products and services are top-notch, but because your website is just fun to use and because they feel invested in it. What is Gamification? Gamification is simply adding game-like element to your product, service, or website. You probably use apps that do this already. You likely have a rewards app for Starbucks or another restaurant that rewards you for repeated visits. Fitbit and Garmin and other fitness apps do this by giving you badges you can share with friends to mark milestones you achieve. This is a … [Read more...] about GamiPress: An Overview and Review

Have you used all the features of Instagram for your business? If not, it is time that you do so. While this article is being written, more features are rolling to benefit brands. You need to use the existing ones and wait for the rest to come out and help to take your business to the next level. Make sure that you keep updating Instagram regularly so that you do not miss the essential updates. According to an article published on HuffPost 1. Page Video Collection Instagram now has this amazing feature. The explore page comes with a permanent video button towards the top-left of the grid. If your business uses Instagram videos, then your potential customers would see you on the explore page. The chances of finding your business and knowing your products are even better with the amazing new feature. When one presses the video button, a new window opens up and starts playing the first file recommended by the person. Once the first video is over, the subsequent one starts playing. The … [Read more...] about 5 Cool Instagram Features that Can Benefit Your Brand

At WP Engine, we are relentlessly focused on being the best platform for building and operating high-performing digital experiences on WordPress. To fulfill this focus, it’s important to remain the leader when it comes to WordPress performance at scale, and to provide customers with a platform that helps their sites run faster, more securely, and with the reliability to grow. We approach performance as a product that’s never finished. Performance is something we’re constantly working to improve. Most recently, we made a number of performance improvements to our platform to provide all of our customers—from shared to dedicated plans—with faster response times across their sites. Check out the chart below to see the results: Examples of where these improvements would be felt the most are in the WordPress administrative and content-editing screens, and on sites where pages are often uncachable, such as eCommerce and membership sites. We … [Read more...] about Improving Our Backend Performance by 15%

You’ve probably heard that WordPress is open source software, and may know that it’s created and run by volunteers. WordPress enthusiasts share many examples of how WordPress changed people’s lives for the better. This monthly series shares some of those lesser-known, amazing stories. Meet Amanda Rush from Augusta, Georgia, USA. Amanda Rush is a WordPress advocate with a visual disability. She first started using computers in 1985, which enabled her to turn in homework to her sighted teachers. Screen reader technology for Windows was in its infancy then, so she worked in DOS almost exclusively. After graduating high school, Amanda went to college to study computer science, programming with DOS-based tools since compilers for Windows were still inaccessible. As part of her computer science course of study, she learned HTML which began her career in web development. How Amanda got started with WordPress Amanda began maintaining a personal website, and eventually began … [Read more...] about People of WordPress: Amanda Rush